The late Toots Thielemans, who died earlier this week, was one of the first chromatic harmonica players to play swing and bop on the instrument. And no one could touch Toots or even sound like him when it came to his "singing" playing style. But he wasn't the first harmonica star. That title belongs to Larry Adler, who died in 2001. Born in Baltimore in…
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